Chapter 8

"Wow! An innate spiritual treasure? And a high-quality one? I~~~"

The big black dog was stunned when he saw the treasure bead, almost biting his own tongue.

"How do you have another innate spiritual treasure? Is it hidden away?" The big black dog looked gloomy, his eyes shining as he stared at the bead, almost drooling.

"This is something I was born with!" Yanzhan looked excitedly at the big black dog, the sword in his hand trembling, and he shouted in his heart, "Move a little, just a little more!"

"Damn! Woof~" The big black dog finally lost his composure and cursed, thinking that even his father, a great demon king, didn't have an innate spiritual treasure, and he only had one after risking his life. How could this guy be born with one?

The big black dog really wanted to howl to the sky, "The heavens are unfair!"

Looking at Ding Yue with a jade bowl on his head and a whip in his hand, and Yanzhan with a treasure bead on his head and a sword in his hand, the big black dog couldn't help but sigh, "Spiritual treasures!"

Xiaoqing (the donkey's name)! I'm really sorry, brother. It's not that I don't want to help, but the timing isn't right. Although we have high realms, we can't match their spiritual treasures. They each have two innate treasures, one offensive and one defensive, and two of them are high-quality. It's not that I don't want to take them down, but I can't. We have to endure for now!

The big black dog silently apologized to the donkey in his heart, remaining silent, quietly staring at the treasure bead on Yanzhan's head, as if he could lure the spiritual treasure just by looking!

Yanzhan was a bit disappointed, thinking, Why doesn't this dog move at all?

"Ah!!! My fur! I'm leaving!" On the other side, the donkey couldn't take it anymore. His once shiny fur was now black and yellow, completely losing its earlier arrogance.

With a loud howl, a green shadow flashed, and the donkey appeared beside the big black dog, complaining, "Blackie, why didn't you move? That's not very brotherly."

The big black dog was speechless, remaining silent.

The donkey realized what was going on and followed the big black dog's gaze to Yanzhan.

"Damn! A high-quality spiritual treasure?" The donkey let out a dry howl, lowering his head and saying weakly to the big black dog, "I understand~"

"Stupid donkey~ Today I'll skin you and make a coat out of you~"

Ding Yue ran over, waving the whip and shouting.

The donkey jumped up, taking a few steps back, and shouted, "Stop, I surrender! Brother, I surrender."

By the end, the donkey was almost in tears. How could innate spiritual treasures be so cheap now? Is there anyone selling them? I want to buy one!

Hearing the donkey's surrender, Ding Yue let him go and looked at Yanzhan with surprise, touching the bead and asking, "A-Zhan, how did you get this bead? It looks quite nice."

Yanzhan felt a chill but still answered, "This was left to me by my father, a high-quality innate spiritual treasure, the Clear Mind and Calm Spirit Bead."

Mother? Ding Yue sighed inwardly. With the Mountain Whip in his hand, that made two high-quality innate spiritual treasures. Who could be so wealthy? High-quality innate spiritual treasures are extremely rare and valuable in the entire vast world.

Could it be the Demon Master? Ding Yue thought, but then dismissed the idea. The Demon Master in the future was known to be poor, with only the Demon Master Palace, and later, two more, which he picked up from the battlefield during the war between the witches and demons.

Hmm? There's also a theory that he stole them!

Looking at Yanzhan, Ding Yue suddenly froze.

Ape-like appearance, white head, red feet? So familiar!

"Brother, what's wrong? Brother?"

Yanzhan saw Ding Yue staring at him and felt uneasy, quickly calling out.

"Ah! Oh~" Ding Yue snapped back to reality, looking at Yanzhan with deep meaning and said, "Nothing~"

After dealing with the big black dog and the donkey, Ding Yue felt like a true leader.

Seeing the many heavenly and earthly essences and rare flowers and herbs in the valley, Ding Yue's eyes lit up.

"Stupid dog, and that donkey, quickly transplant those heavenly and earthly essences."

"Stupid dog, be gentle, these are treasures, be careful~"

"What? Donkey, don't use your mouth, or I'll beat you!"

Ding Yue loudly commanded the two, taking out the Tower of Heavenly and Earthly Essences.

Due to time constraints, Ding Yue hadn't had the chance to refine the tower yet. Seeing the ground full of heavenly and earthly essences, he finally remembered the primary purpose of seizing the treasure.

Since the tower had been refined by the Southern Immortal, Ding Yue needed to erase the Southern Immortal's divine imprint to use it.

However, the Southern Immortal didn't seem to value the tower much, and although he had it the longest, he hadn't refined it as deeply as the jade bowl. With Ding Yue's current cultivation, it only took a short while to erase the Southern Immortal's divine imprint.

"What is this?"

Ding Yue's divine consciousness entered the tower, and he was immediately stunned.

The Tower of Heavenly and Earthly Essences had three levels. Due to the loose refinement, the Southern Immortal had only opened the first level.

The first level was like a small world, vast and boundless, with a gentle light similar to the sun in the vast world, full of vitality.

The air was filled with dense innate spiritual energy, similar in concentration to the outside world, and the ground was made of innate spiritual soil, with a small lake of innate spiritual water.

The Southern Immortal clearly didn't value the tower much, as there were only a few rare flowers and herbs in the small world.

But that wasn't the point. In the center of the small world was a small hill, no more than a few dozen feet high, with only slightly denser spiritual energy than the rest.

But on this small hill was a strange tree.

It was entirely white and translucent, about a meter tall, with branches covered in strange patterns, emitting a jade-like glow. It had seven or eight branches, with dozens of palm-sized jade leaves.

And eight fist-sized, irregularly shaped jade fruits.

The tree was surrounded by a mist of innate spiritual energy, with various phenomena constantly appearing: fairies scattering flowers, purple qi coming from the east, the birth of all living things, gods and demons roaring~~~

Ding Yue's figure flashed, and he disappeared, leaving the tower floating in the air.

"Innate spiritual root!"

Ding Yue appeared beside the jade tree, looking at it, with the words "innate spiritual root" circling in his mind.

Clearly, this strange tree was no ordinary thing. Even without the various phenomena, the fact that the Southern Immortal, when severely injured and with depleted magic, could suddenly reach the Celestial Immortal stage by consuming one of these fruits, and that Ding Yue, holding the Mountain Whip, dared not face him directly, proved the fruit's extraordinary nature.

Moreover, it seemed the fruit wasn't even fully ripe yet?

Ding Yue's mouth was dry, his eyes red, and he wanted to pick and eat a fruit right away.

But he held back. The fruit wasn't ripe, and eating it now would greatly reduce its effectiveness, making it a poor deal. This was the fruit of an innate spiritual root!

Thinking of the Queen Mother of the West's peaches and the Ginseng Fruit of Zhenyuanzi, Ding Yue was filled with hope for this spiritual fruit.

Now Ding Yue finally understood why the Southern Immortal was unwilling to hand over the Tower of Heavenly and Earthly Essences that day. With such a treasure inside, he would never give it up, even if it cost his life!

Ding Yue felt a bit sorry for the Southern Immortal. Losing several innate spiritual treasures and this innate spiritual root was a huge loss, a pity, as it was a great opportunity for enlightenment!

He wondered if, after losing these treasures and the innate spiritual root, the Southern Immortal would still become the Southern Immortal of the future, be taken as a disciple by the Primordial Heavenly Sovereign, and eventually become the Supreme Longevity Emperor.

Ding Yue's divine consciousness found the Southern Immortal's divine imprint in the jade tree, as expected.

"Rogue! You have stolen my spiritual treasure and my spiritual root! I will never rest until I have avenged this, a debt of blood and hatred! I hate it, my good fortune!!"

Perhaps because the Southern Immortal valued this spiritual root, or because the divine imprint was nourished by the root, it was much stronger than the one on the Tower of Heavenly and Earthly Essences. Upon discovering Ding Yue's divine consciousness, it immediately began cursing, its face contorted with rage, losing all its dignity!

Unfortunately, it was just a part of the Southern Immortal's divine consciousness, while Ding Yue was his full divine spirit.

So, in the blink of an eye, the divine imprint was erased.

Afterward, Ding Yue naturally attached a part of his divine consciousness to the jade tree.

Through this, he learned the basic information about the tree.

"Jade Precious Fruit," born from the fusion of a fragment of the Creation Jade Scroll and a spiritual root. It blooms every three thousand years, bears fruit every three thousand years, and ripens every three thousand years, taking ten thousand years to be edible, and only bears nine fruits!

This fruit contains the essence of the Great Dao, increasing one's Daoist cultivation and helping to break through realms or obtain the essence of the Great Dao.

Ding Yue was excited. He thought about Zhenyuanzi's Ginseng Fruit.

The Ginseng Fruit and the Grass Return Pill also bloom every three thousand years, bear fruit every three thousand years, and take another three thousand years to ripen, totaling ten thousand years before they can be eaten.

However, the Ginseng Fruit can bear thirty fruits at a time, and the peaches can bear even more, enough for a peach banquet.

This tree, on the other hand, only bears nine fruits every ten thousand years, a very low yield.

A fragment of the Creation Jade Scroll? Ding Yue noticed this information.

The Creation Jade Scroll was an ultimate divine artifact. The Dao Ancestor only obtained a fragment, which he used to destroy Luo Hou, create the Three Thousand Great Dao, and the Eight Hundred Minor Dao, spreading the Dao, taking disciples, and distributing treasures, making the entire vast world submit to his authority.

Even after merging with the Dao, his disciples became the Celestial Sages, controlling the vast world.

When the Creation Jade Scroll broke, most of it became the essence of the world, while the remaining fragments mostly became innate spiritual treasures, like the Jade Bowl, which was no less powerful than the innate undying spiritual light, and even more powerful in some aspects!

The rest were other opportunities.

Like this Jade Precious Fruit tree, which was originally just a slightly better innate spiritual root, but after fusing with a larger fragment of the Creation Jade Scroll, its power was no less than the top ten innate spiritual roots, and in some ways, even stronger, making it as precious as a supreme innate spiritual treasure!

Ding Yue hadn't heard of this tree in the future, so it was probably hidden by the Southern Immortal or taken by the Primordial Heavenly Sovereign.

The Queen Mother of the West's peaches, the worst of which bear fruit every three thousand years, the better ones every six thousand years, and the best every nine thousand years.

On par with the top ten innate spiritual roots!

Ding Yue's mouth watered, and he couldn't help but feel excited!

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